Note by Pastor Bynum: This article is, in my opinion, one of the best on
the subject of abortion. It is written by a practicing physician who daily
seeks to preserve life. The forceful straightforward style of writing gets
your attention and emphasizes the tragedy going on in every state in our
union with the blessings of federal law and U.S. Supreme Court sanction.

I
am a physician. I have been trained to protect and preserve life. Since
medical school, I have delivered many babies, though the bulk of my training
and practice is in pediatrics - the care of babies and children. As one who
loves children (my wife and I have six), I speak today on behalf of children
- children of all ages: Toddlers, babies and especially those little
pre-born humans who today reside inside their mothers or who later will be
received and delivered (or murdered).

During the months leading to the Emancipation
Proclamation, President Lincoln repeatedly discussed the matter with his
cabinet. During one difficult discussion, he asked: "Gentlemen, how many
legs does a sheep have?" Each man answered correctly, "Four, Mr. President."
He proceeded, "Let's call his tail a leg. Now how many legs?" Each man
replied, "Five, Mr. President." Mr. Lincoln retorted, "Nope, still only
four. Just because we call it a leg doesn't make it one."

Abortion is murder. Each abortion snuffs out an
innocent human life. Tragically, doctors have deceived the American public.
Referring to unborn babies as "fetus," "embryo," or "zygote," may be
scientifically correct, but does not change the fact: These little ones are
little human beings. Though called "parasite," "blob," or "tissue," give
each wee creature about 266 days after conception and see what emerges from
his mother's womb. It will be a human baby, not a zebra, a trout, frog or an
orangutan.

Remember Mr. Lincoln. Don't be deceived by
folks (even doctors) who call a tail a leg - or humans anything but humans.
When a human egg and a human sperm unite, the resulting individual is simply
human. Given time, nutrition and protection, he or she will grow to
maturity. Calling abortion a "termination" or "evacuating the uterus"
doesn't change its reality as murder-slaughtering a human being with
premeditated malice.

Some Comments Comical

Were it not tragic, some abortion comments
could be comical. A previous guest writer on this page, Dr. Harrison, said
the unborn baby is "a parasite without feeling, thought, or experience...
the fetus simply does not have the things required to feel pain..."

But nerves are in place by six to eight weeks
after conception. The chemicals necessary to send messages over nerve
pathways to the brain are present by 12 weeks. Ask yourself - if you were
stuck, pinched, grabbed, cut or crushed, how would you react? You likely
would squirm, thrash, try to escape or fight. Your blood pressure would go
up; your pulse would speed up.

That's how pre-born babies respond. Before
being cut to pieces, sucked apart, chemically killed, or otherwise abused
(to death), these little humans struggle, seeking to escape the destruction.
In my opinion, abortionists have forfeited the privilege to be called
"physicians", for they have abandoned the responsibility of acting like
physicians.

What about rape? What about incest? These
horrors defy descriptive condemnation. They represent the least human and
most selfish acts imaginable - along with murder - and they deserve swift
and severe punishment. A woman or girl abused by rape or incest should be
seen promptly, evaluated with compassion and treated appropriately to
prevent conception. Should pregnancy occur, the tragedy should not be
compounded by another crime: Murdering the baby.

Rape and incest deserve one further note: They
(thank God) represent a relatively uncommon cause of pregnancy - and figure
in less than 2 percent of abortions. The other 98 percent are done for the
sake of convenience (not that of the baby). Abortion represents the most
common surgical procedure performed in America today. Enough human lives are
snuffed out each day to populate Mena, De Queen, or Fordyce. Each week,
abortionists slaughter a group of babies equal in number to the population
of Springdale or El Dorado.

One more tragedy - often delayed and overlooked
- concerns the mother of the aborted baby. I have cared for and counseled
such women - women who find it difficult to live with an awakened
conscience. Though duped, squelched or ignored, a conscience awakened to
reality may produce guilt, grief and pain. Even with the reality of
forgiveness, the scars may produce long-standing consequences.

One last 'leg-tail' deserves comment. Can you
remember folks saying, "Don't push your morality on me!" when foes of
abortion challenge its practise? Most folk appreciate our society's
restrictions on rape, robbery, assault and murder - and those restrictions
are based on morality, as is every aspect of our lives, whether collectively
or individually.

As a believer in Jesus Christ, I'm convinced
that moral absolutes exist. My convictions as a Christian and as a physician
include the sanctity of human life. If each individual human (including
unborn babies) does not have worth, if we do not acknowledge our
responsibility to care for the unwanted and the defenseless, we will find
our collective path ending at the ovens of Auschwitz, the Gulags of Siberia,
or the Abortion Chambers of America. END

“Righteousness exalteth a
nation: but sin is a reproach to any people.” —Proverb 14:34

The sad truth is that women who have had abortions
are GUILTY of murder. Such women have crossed the line, just as Eve
did when she challenged God's Word. God says... Thou shalt not kill;
BUT, many women today kill anyway, having no regard for God or His
Word. Women who think they are exercising their "rights" by
having an abortion are in reality foolishly killing their own baby. Do
you realize that a baby is aborted by being sucked into pieces while alive,
by a vacuum that is 29 times more powerful than a standard vacuum? For
more information, please read Abortion Torture
Methods. When a women permits a doctor to kill her baby, she is
literally handing her beloved child over to an executioner to be tortured to
death in a grotesque, painful, and brutal procedure that rivals the Japanese
Unit 731 Labs
of WWII.

On the individual level, there is forgiveness for
involvement in the sin of abortion. Through the sacrifice of Jesus Christ, God
will justly forgive those who repent and
believe the Gospel (1st Corinthians 6:11, “And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified,
but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God”).
God loves you!

Please take a look at this
YouTube video. It will remind
you that every human life is precious and that we can see
this truth most clearly through the face of a helpless,
innocent baby who can do nothing for us but allow us the
opportunity to give ourselves to him in love. It
teaches that joy comes through giving oneself to another for
their own sake and that authentic joy can be experienced in
the midst of difficulties and even amidst tremendous sorrow. Mostly, it will reveal the heroic courage and life affirming
witness that is possible for those yielded to and animated
by the life of the Holy Spirit. Take a look but make
sure you have your Kleenex ready.

If God could hear the voice of
Abel's blood crying out to Him from the ground (Genesis 4:10), do
you suppose God has missed the cries of those 57,000,000 infants
who've been butchered in America since 1973?